I’m pretty jaded, but this one takes the cake:
"We are playing it straight," Hoyer insisted. He said American voters would not care what process Congress uses to enact a sweeping health care overhaul and would focus instead on the merits of the new law.
At the same time, he defended the use of the procedural sidestep, which House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Monday that she was considering employing. He cited statistics that, he said, showed that Republicans had used "deeming" process about twice as often as Democrats over the years.
Hoyer did not specify what period of time or what types of legislation were approved using the procedure.
When, exactly, did the House Republicans ever use this tactic? Honestly, I’d like to know. IF – and that’s a BIG IF – Hoyer is not lying, I want to know if any of these GOP pirates are still in office. If they are we should find primary opponents for those guys. Proposing to pass legislation without actually voting on it is UNCONSTITUTIONAL. It doesn’t matter if the GOP did it in the past, it’s WRONG. But even IF Hoyer is telling the truth, I guess his Mom never taught him that two wrongs don’t make a right.
I’m a conservative, not a radical. However, if House Dems actually use this tactic of “deeming” a bill to have passed to force ObamaCare on an unwilling electorate it’s time to take to the streets.
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ReplyDelete4:05 Your right, but I would like to keep my earnings while I'm here.
ReplyDeleteUnwilling electorate???? Paleezzee, what about the Iraq war nimrod?
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ReplyDeleteUntil the left wing media in this country started selectively reporting on the war this country was squarely behind the Iraq war. At first all the big wig Dems were behind the war making speeches in congress and sounding like hawks on defense.
There is in no way as much opposition to the Iraq war as there is to this insane health care bill. Who's the nimrod?
ReplyDeleteI'm convinced that all democrats should be deported to cuba.
ReplyDeleteHoyer and his ilk should be arrested and imprisoned for life for purposely breaking the highest law in the land, our Constitution. They should be put to death for their treasonous acts against this Country!
ReplyDeleteWhy not get informed. This is just another "scare" from the lunatic right and you're falling for it. Of course there will be an up or down vote, this measure simply causes the changes to be made concurrently with the vote. You guys believe anything anybody but Obama tells you. Pure crap.
ReplyDeleteSurely NOT Uncle Steny, there isn't one straight bones in that man's character;)
ReplyDeleteIf the votes were there, this side-step wouldn't be "deemed" necessary. :-)
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ReplyDeleteSorry guy; you're the one who's not informed. If what you said was true then there would be a vote on an amended bill rather than simply "deeming" the bill to have passed.
If this is actually done, we will have witnessed a de facto coup.